Support Package?

"Chagos Islanders living in exile from the territory claimed by Britain, and left destitute by the coronavirus downturn, have been refused support by the UK government, leaving some unable to buy enough food. They question why a £40m support package – which was announced by the UK government in 2016 to assist Chagossians living in the UK, Mauritius and Seychelles – isn’t being used to help them during this time. The fund has gone largely unspent since its launch."

Well, of course. With that of Julian Assange, the Chagossian cause is one of the two that mark someone as an implacable enemy of the British Establishment, in that Establishment's own terms. Ask Jeremy Corbyn. Or Alex Salmond. Or Chris Williamson. Or George Galloway. Or Craig Murray. Or Richard Burgon, who has decided to waste the next 50 years on a forlorn fight against his own party. Or, indeed, Keir Starmer, who proves the point from the other side.

Chagossians are of course brown. Somewhere between three quarters and four fifths of the public consistently opposes any "exit strategy" from the lockdown. But not only is Starmer funded by the people for whom our deaths would be a price worth paying for their profits, he is also a former Director of Public Prosecutions. He has devoted his life to killing BAME and working-class people. He lives for it. He lives for nothing else.

The fanatical racism of Starmer is evident from his response to the infamous Labour report. No one has been so much as suspended pending investigation, and the preparation of an almost literal whitewash has been handed over to a committee of Corbyn-hating friends of the Corbyn-hating accused.

Meanwhile, it is open season on left-wing black women, courtesy of the Vanilla ISIS that is the Board of Deputies, the Jewish Leadership Council, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Community Security Trust, and so on. As the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott received the votes of more Jews than all of the members of the Board of Deputies put together. Yet Starmer dances to its tune against her. No doubt, this is at least in part a question of following the money.

But all of this is ultimately a sideshow, if a particularly tasteless one. Labour is ahead of the Conservatives by only six points in London, it is behind them everywhere else, it is only half as popular as they are in Wales, and it has its worst ever poll rating in Scotland, a mere 14 per cent. The Government has practically ended rough sleeping, showing that all that was ever lacking was the political will. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.